A Trip to Orange World

It’s late Sunday afternoon and I’m about to fly back to Melbourne for some work commitments prior to returning later in the week to the set of the Australian made motion picture film Summer Coda. Earlier this afternoon some of the actors visited Orange World just over the border in NSW for some fruit picking [...]

Summer Coda_Day 10

Here are a few shots of some lovely folk involved as extras in the film Summer Coda. Day 10 included a shoot in Merbein, a small town close to Mildura where the film is set. After film was finished I asked permission to make a few quick snaps of these good folk and, as is [...]

Summer Coda_Day 9

Over recent days I’ve been working as stills photographer on the Australian film, Summer Coda, set in and around Mildura, Australia. My role is twofold: to provide specific images for publicity and promotional purposes and to capture behind the scenes images of cast and crew.
I arrived in Mildura at around 8pm on Wednesday evening to [...]

Portrait Photography of Your Family

 
 
 

Buddha Statue in Red_Bagan_Myanmar

 
The above image was made in Bagan, ancient capital of Myanmar (Burma). The Buddha statue was positioned in front of a mural depicting significant moments from the Buddha’s life. The original image was made with Kodak Ektachrome E100VS film. The ‘vs’ stands for vivid saturation and, with the films slight magenta/red color bias, flesh tones [...]

Detail and Movement

Mariners Falls is a lovely and easily accessible waterfall a short drive out of Apollo Bay, a major town along the Great Ocean Road. Photographers can usually move quite close to the cascade and, thereby, use tight framing to concentrate the viewer’s attention on the water itself and the ferns, rock and fallen tree that [...]

An Iconic Landscape

 
This is the second version of this image I produced for this blog site. The first was designed to accurately reproduce the original 35mm color transparency. This version explores the same image rendered in black-and-white.
I feel the textural qualities of the image, evident in the rock, clouds and white-crested waves have been further emphasized through [...]

Re-Visiting the Familiar

 
I was born in 1962 in Hamilton a provincial town in Western Victoria, 285km west of Melbourne the state capital, where I currently reside. I remember as a child the population, marked on signs at several main entry points to the town, was 10,200. Back then that seemed like a whole lot of people.
As a [...]

Buddha Statue_Bagan_Myanmar

Myanmar (Burma) was a revelation for me. I loved it and can’t wait until I can re-visit this spectacular country.
I discovered the above scene while wandering around the ancient capital of Bagan. The strong side light emphasized the shape, texture and tonality of the Buddha statue and the brick platform on which it is situated. [...]

A Life Contained

I photographed this gentleman while on an outing with the Leica Society, a camera club based in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. While I’ve attended many camera clubs as a judge or guest speaker, the Leica Society is the only club where I was registered as an active member. Unfortunately, a full work schedule stopped [...]